[00:00:00] Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) (explicit Vinyl Album Version Explicit) - The Roots
[00:00:02] Written by：Amiri Baraka/Ben Kenney/Questlove
[00:00:15] In town
[00:00:23] In town
[00:00:29] In town
[00:00:35] Something in the way of things
[00:00:39] Something that will quit and won't start
[00:00:42] Something you know but can't stand
[00:00:44] Can't know get along with like death
[00:00:50] Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue
[00:00:55] Something entirely fictitious and true
[00:00:58] That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways
[00:01:03] Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling
[00:01:10] The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss
[00:01:13] I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate
[00:01:18] I know things you know and nothing you don't know
[00:01:23] Except I saw something in the way of things
[00:01:26] Something grinning at me and I wanted to know was it funny
[00:01:30] Was it so funny it followed me down the street
[00:01:33] Greeting everybody like the good humor man
[00:01:35] But they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream
[00:01:40] It was like that
[00:01:41] Me talking across people into the houses
[00:01:44] And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks
[00:01:48] You could see them
[00:01:49] But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
[00:01:53] Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
[00:01:57] And let them chant the number
[00:01:59] And use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
[00:02:02] Remember steppen fetchit
[00:02:05] Remember steppen fetchit how we laughed
[00:02:07] On all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
[00:02:11] With the ice pick high over his head
[00:02:13] Made you laugh anyway
[00:02:16] I can see something in the way of ourselves
[00:02:19] I can see something in the way of ourselves
[00:02:20] That's why I say the things I do you know it
[00:02:23] But it's something else to you like that job
[00:02:27] This morning when you got there and it was quiet
[00:02:30] And the machines were yearning soft behind you
[00:02:33] Yearning for that ni**a to come and give up his life
[00:02:36] Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and troubled
[00:02:41] My mistake is I kept sayin' that was proof god didn't exist
[00:02:44] And you told me nah it was proof that the devil do
[00:02:49] But still it's like I see something I hear things
[00:02:53] I saw words in the white boy's lying rag
[00:02:55] Said he was gonna die poor and frustrated
[00:02:57] That them dreams walk which you 'cross town
[00:02:59] Is gonna die from over work
[00:03:03] There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't sh*t
[00:03:06] And you almost believe it
[00:03:08] Broke and mistaken all the time
[00:03:11] You know some of the words but they ain't the right ones
[00:03:15] You cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see
[00:03:18] But I see something in the way of things
[00:03:21] Something to make us stumble
[00:03:23] Something get us drunk from noise and addicted to sadness
[00:03:26] I see something and feel something stalking us
[00:03:29] Like a ugly thing floating at our back calling us names
[00:03:33] You see it and hear it too
[00:03:36] But you say it got a right to exist just like you
[00:03:39] And if god made it
[00:03:41] But then we got to argue
[00:03:44] And the light gonna come down around us
[00:03:46] Even though we remember where the light is
[00:03:49] Remember the negro squinting at us through the cage
[00:03:54] You seen what I see too
[00:03:58] The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks
[00:04:02] You see something too but can't call its name
[00:04:07] Ain't it too bad y'all said
[00:04:12] Ain't it too bad such a nice boy always kind to his mother
[00:04:15] Always say good morning to everybody on his way to work
[00:04:19] But that last time before he got locked up and hurt real bad
[00:04:26] I've seen him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling
[00:04:28] And he didn't even say hello
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